Voice mail apparatus and associated method
OwnerRonald Franklin Wattsinventor
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Abstract
Apparatus, and an associated method, by which to record and provide a voice mail message to a receiving party. A media server is provided and connected to a packet data network through which a call originated at a calling station is rerouted upon unsuccessful call termination at an intended receiving station. The calling party leaves a message at a message recorder, and the message is saved as a digitized file-formatted file. The file is attached to an email message which is forwarded, by way of the packet data network, to a destination at which the receiving party is later able to retrieve the email message and the file attached thereto.
Claims20
In a communication system in which a call, originated by a calling party at a call-origination station, to be terminated at a receiving station is rerouted upon unsuccessful call-termination at the receiving station, an improvement of apparatus for recording a message left by the calling party, the message subsequently accessible at a packet data network station, said apparatus comprising:
- a message recorder to which the call originated at the call-origination station is rerouted upon the unsuccessful call-termination of the call at the receiving station, said message recorder for recording the message left by the calling party, the message recorded by said message recorder forming a digitized file-formatted data file;
- a packet-data message generator coupled to said message recorder to receive the digitized file-formatted data file recorded by said message recorder, said pocket-data message generator for generating a packet-data message to which the digitized file-formatted file is attached, the packet-data message forwardable to at least a first receiving-station selected address.
In a method for communicating in a communication system in which a call originated by a calling party at a call-origination station to be terminated at a receiving station is rerouted upon unsuccessful call-termination at the receiving station, an improvement of a method for recording a message left by the calling party, the message subsequently accessible at a packet data network station, said method comprising:
- redirecting the call to a message recorder upon the unsuccessful call-termination of the call at the receiving station;
- recording the message left by the calling party at the message recorder, the message forming a digitized file-formatted data packet;
- generating a packet-data message to which the digitized file-formatted file is attached, the packet-data message forwardable to at least a first receiving-station address.
In a media server coupled to communication fabric of a communication system, an improvement of apparatus for recording a message left by a calling party, the message receivable by a receiving party, said apparatus comprising:
- a message recorder to which the call originated by the call-origination station is rerouted upon the unsuccessful call-termination of the call at the receiving party, said message recorder for recording the message left by the calling party, the message recorded by said message recorder forming a digitized file-formatted data file;
- a packet-data message generator coupled to said message recorder to receive the digitized file-formatted data file recorded by said message recorder, said packet-data message generator for generating a packet-data message to which the digitized file-formatted file is attached, the packet-data message forwardable to at least a first receiving-station selected address;
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- a packet-data message transmitter coupled to receive the packet-data message generated by said packet-data message generator, said packet-data message transmitter for transmitting the packet-data message to the at least the first receiving-station selected address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.